Discover the students of WDI at General Assembly Boston. Take a peek at past & current cohorts; keep track of code being pushed.

(App originally developed to showcase different cities; updated in January 2015 to only show Boston cohorts)

• Index site shows a collection of faces from General Assembly's Boston Web Development Immersive Program
• Hover over avatars to see names
• Filter by cohort
• Search by name
• Select a student to see their Github activity, including: Total # of repos Followers & following count Top 3 starred repositories Most recent 5 commits (updates daily) Breakdown of languages pushed in total to Github

This project was created to meet requirements for the Final Project in General Assembly's Web Development Immersive Program (July 2014).

Intended to test our ability to use a number of different skills acquired throughout the course.

WDI Hub is built on the following:

• Rails API
• PostgreSQL
• Octokit (Github API)
• AngularJS
• CSS3 animations
• Automated Rake Tasks
• Front- and back-end testing utilizing RSpec and Protractor
• Unicorn Web Server
• Angular caching
• Amazon Cloudfront

This project was brainstormed, scoped and developed in one week.

I look forward to developing this project further and adding new features. Future feature ideas include:

• Adding websockets to ping when a student pushes code to Github
• Adding messaging to Github users
• Displaying cohort stats and real-time data for when students are pushing code

####Wireframes & Schema:

####Implementation:

####Known issues to address: Previous/Next buttons (on student 'show' page) will produce no results when they reach the end of records; intend to make infinite loop. Submitted my first Stack Overflow question seeking solution for placing logic to handle this.

This app requires a Github Access Token from https://developer.github.com/ (note: Github requires developers to register with the GitHub Developer Program).

Create a .env at the root of the github_api directory with the following:

GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

To begin, run bundle install

Additional setup for the database and initial API calls:

rake db:create
rake db:seed
rake githubdata:account_info      # Load Github acct information
rake githubdata:repos             # Load repositories
rake githubdata:commit_messages   # Load most recent push data

This app utilizes both RSpec and Protractor testing.

RSpec: Inside the github_api directory, run $ rspec (Tests are located within the spec/requests directory)

Protractor: Make sure the project is running on a rails server at Port:3000. Spin up a webdriver-manager in your console with webdriver-manager start. Change into the github_api directory, and in a separate tab, run protractor public/tests/conf.js (Tests are located in public/tests/e2e directory)

If you are a WDI student and would like to be added to the directory, please submit a pull request with your name and Github username.

Created by Lisa Plesko.